Telecommunications apparatuses and methods
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorShin Horng Wong
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Abstract
A method of transmitting paging information to a terminal in a telecommunications system via a wireless interface, wherein the terminal is operable to decode received messages transmitted at a first repetition level or at a second repetition level. A message transmitted at the first repetition level is repeated a number N1 of times and a message transmitted at the second repetition level is repeated a number N2 of times, with N1<N2. The method includes: transmitting a first paging allocation message to the terminal in a downlink search resources space and at the first repetition level; and transmitting a second paging allocation message to the terminal in a downlink search resources space and at the second repetition level.
Claims20
Integrated circuitry for a mobile node for use in a telecommunications system, the integrated circuitry comprising:
- a transceiver;
- and
- control circuitry configured to
- decode received messages that are transmitted at a first repetition level or at a second repetition level, wherein a message transmitted at the first repetition level is repeated a number N1 of times and a message transmitted at the second repetition level is repeated a number N2 of times, with N1<N2;
- and
- control the transceiver to page a terminal via a wireless interface by instructing the transceiver to transmit both (1) a first paging allocation message to the terminal in a downlink search resources space and at the first repetition level, and (2) a second paging allocation message to the terminal in the downlink search resources space and at the second repetition level.
Integrated circuitry for a terminal for use in a telecommunications system, the integrated circuitry comprising:
- a transceiver;
- and
- control circuitry configured to
- decode messages received by the transceiver, wherein the messages are transmitted from another device at a first repetition level or at a second repetition level, a message transmitted at the first repetition level is being repeated a number N1 of times and a message transmitted at the second repetition level is being repeated a number N2 of times, with N1<N2;
- and
- decode, at one of the first and second repetition levels, a paging allocation message received by the transceiver in a search resources space, the paging allocation message being one of two paging allocation messages, each of the two paging allocation messages being sent at a different one of the first and second repetition levels, wherein
- the transceiver is configured to receive both (1) a first paging allocation message in a downlink search resources space and transmitted at the first repetition level, and (2) a second paging allocation message in the downlink search resources space and transmitted at the second repetition level.
A method of paging a terminal in a telecommunications system via a wireless interface, wherein the terminal is operable to decode received messages that are transmitted at a first repetition level or a second repetition level, wherein a message transmitted at the first repetition level are being repeated a number N1 of times and a message transmitted at the second repetition level are being repeated a number N2 of times, with N1<N2, the method comprising:
- transmitting both a first paging allocation message in a downlink search resources space at both the first repetition level and a second paging allocation message in the downlink search resources space at the second repetition level, the first and second paging allocation messages allocating paging resources in a paging resources space;
- and
- transmitting a paging message in the allocated paging resources, wherein transmission of the paging message starts at a time which is before the end of the transmission of the paging allocation message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.